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Capt. Elmo Jayawardena Chronicles – Paradise Misplaced<\/span><\/h1>\n

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Our island was called Lanka in pre King Vijaya times. Valmiki’s <\/span>immortal Ramayanaya had King Ravana ruling the land from the city of <\/span>Lankapura . That was almost four thousand years ago. The Arab traders <\/span>termed it Jaziratul-Yaqut, island of rubies. Some called it Serandip, <\/span>some Ceilan, from which the Portuguese picked Ceilao and the European <\/span>map-makers coined Ceylon. Many were the names from the many that came,<\/span>
\nand they all were collective in their comment in the description of <\/span>this land. Bar none, everyone agreed and noted in their chronicles <\/span>that this island was indeed the complete Paradise.<\/span><\/p>\n

We never gained it. Let’s be honest about that part. We simply <\/span>inherited. The Gods from their celestial dome, in their infinite <\/span>kindness, gifted this Paradise to us, the beautiful island of Lanka, <\/span>to the people of Sri Lanka .<\/span><\/p>\n

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The privilege of being born and belonging to such a place can only be <\/span>rightfully expressed if one can take the turmoil out and look through <\/span>the veils of disharmony that obscure what lies beyond. The purity of <\/span>the land, still remains, so much unspoiled. The occupant of Paradise, <\/span>still smiles, in spite of the battering he had received from the time <\/span>we were reborn after the colonials left. Mother Lanka dawdles, whilst <\/span>her sons and daughters drowse in ignorance, somewhat a prelude to the <\/span>disasters ahead.<\/span><\/p>\n

Ruben walks daily carrying his Malu Kada following the footsteps of <\/span>his father and grand father. His son Saman tags along, apprenticing <\/span>the trade, helps to weigh the fish, cleans the broad blade knife as <\/span>his father barters with the housewives, haggling for the bargain. They <\/span>leave, father and son, with the little boy shouting Malu Malu <\/span>straining his tender vocal chords. The fishmonger to be, on his first <\/span>lessons. No change.<\/span><\/p>\n

Podi Hami prays every day. That’s all she can do. She and her son <\/span>Sirisena, did try every possible means, and failed. No they couldn’t <\/span>get a letter for employment. Wrong party, not our people, that is what <\/span>the man said. Not that Podi Hami had any inclination of what happened <\/span>in the parliament or who sat aloft. She merely crossed the ballot <\/span>papers.<\/span><\/p>\n

There was always too much controversy in the news and people spoke in <\/span>such different tones about their leaders that Podi Hami had long given <\/span>up in her little mind to seek the truth. That was impossible. She <\/span>merely voted and got branded. Now she sees young Sirisena, a <\/span>posthumous corporal, beret and braid, in black and white, immortalised <\/span>in a cheap framed photograph, hanging on the nail infested bedroom <\/span>wall, boring his eyes at her, a sad and constant memory of a war where <\/span>mainly the poor make the payments.<\/span><\/p>\n

A Porsche glitters inside a show room at the Bambalapitiya junction. A <\/span>young boy pushes his crippled father, looking at the cars. The old man <\/span>sits crumpled, folded along with his worldly belongings, in a rickety <\/span>old chair that rolls on warped wheels. Donated by the Lions, says the <\/span>back.<\/span><\/p>\n

A blind man and his woman share their lunch, seated on the pavement of <\/span>Dickman’s Road. Someone had been generous. The woman, withered and <\/span>wasted, raises a bath kata to her toothless mouth and hears the world<\/span>
\nwith sightless eyes, whilst the husband waits his turn, scratching his <\/span>mottled skin of burnt black- Citizens of Paradise.<\/span><\/p>\n

The sun goes down and the pavements become the bedchambers for the <\/span>super poor who pray for the rains to hold till morning.<\/span><\/p>\n

These are no fairy tales of my redundant imagination. They are the <\/span>stories of Paradise. The day-to-day events that play sad and silent <\/span>along the cacophony of achievement. Don’t tell me they are isolated,<\/span>oh no, not by a long shot. They are the unheard, the ignored and the <\/span>expendable debts of the displaced denizens of Paradise. The<\/span>
\nstentorians are there, loud and clear, announcing to the world and <\/span>beyond, the inflated paths of progress, with rainbow visions for the <\/span>morrow, splashing milk and honey stories. But, isn’t there a big <\/span>question mark? Isn’t there some straining needed to seek the truth?<\/span><\/p>\n

I’m not talking of devolution and separations, politics don’t interest <\/span>me. I’m like Podi Hami, totally confused between right and wrong and <\/span>where lies the light. I’m writing of the core, the very basics that <\/span>humans search for, Uncle Sam’s stuff, the pursuit of happiness type, <\/span>the very essence that Paradise should be made of, which I think, is <\/span>sadly missing at present.<\/span><\/p>\n

They leave Paradise by the thousands. Why? That is a good question. <\/span>Look around and you will see the answer. They move out to pursue their <\/span>happiness elsewhere. Not by choice, but by reasons of sheer necessity.
\n<\/span>
\nThe Sri Lankan Diaspora is everywhere, from the chilly summits of <\/span>Northern Canada to the dry lands of Tasmania. From sushi land to <\/span>Swaziland. From the deserts of Dhahran to the lush green valleys of <\/span>New Zealand. You see them with their little Sri Lankan clubs, clinging <\/span>on dearly to memories of a homeland, torn between a new life and what <\/span>they left behind.<\/span><\/p>\n

It’s a love they cannot shed, a romance gone rotten, and they gather <\/span>and lament, speak in sad nostalgic tones and save miserly to visit and <\/span>spend a week or two in their much loved and beloved Paradise.<\/span><\/p>\n

Why do these inheritors leave Paradise ? Something must have gone <\/span>wrong in the system. The exodus only began after we were reborn. <\/span>Hence, the blame is not with the colonials and their House of Commons.<\/span>
\nIt is ours and ours alone, lying firmly in the Pontius hands of the <\/span>custodians who were chosen to charter our future, and seemingly have <\/span>failed in their delivery.<\/span><\/p>\n

Isn’t it a fact that there is a mass cry for employment outside. The <\/span>mason and the maid lead, followed by the waiter, the janitor and the <\/span>bartender. Name him, and he is there, looking for agents to send him <\/span>to some far away Valhalla . The banker too, and the medicine man, fill <\/span>passport forms, standing side by side with the young urban<\/span>
\nprofessional and the academic erudite. All looking across the sea, <\/span>from the shores of Paradise .<\/span><\/p>\n

There are some consolations too, one cannot be totally paranoid. The <\/span>factory jobs are there for the tradeless. Foreign Marks and local <\/span>Spencer make the mint and scope the cream and the poor Paradisians eat <\/span>the peanut. Still, it’s something to keep the kitchen fires burning. <\/span>The rest of the no skills pawn their souls to go abroad. Local Dick <\/span>Whitingtons charging into the unknown, exploited at every toll gate<\/span>(there are many) and slave in alien homes in the Middle East and Asia, <\/span>sending their carefully hoarded pitiful dirams and dollars to their <\/span>loved ones, whilst counting agonising days to return home.<\/span><\/p>\n

Sixty years have gone by from the day of independence. The blameless <\/span>blame, the nameless suffer, the shameless go on, ramroding their way <\/span>to erode and annihilate Paradise. No need to further elaborate, the <\/span>reasons are obvious. Some things happen to be best left unsaid. Let me <\/span>be the coward and let discretion become the better part of my limited <\/span>attempts at journalism.<\/span><\/p>\n

Call me a fool if it pleases you and I ll accept it. But let me <\/span>trickle some sanity to your thoughts. Just to kindle an interest. <\/span>Totally non political. I cannot and do not separate the villain from <\/span>the venerated, the line is too thin and the facts are wildly <\/span>scattered. The truth certainly is in masquerade. The Lankan Paradise <\/span>is not lost, not yet. It is certainly misplaced. That much can be <\/span>clearly seen, lest one be blind. What happens in the end to things <\/span>that are misplaced? They never get found and as time goes by; it sure <\/span>will become something permanently missing.<\/span><\/p>\n

Ours is a Paradise misplaced. Let us all valiantly search, it is not <\/span>too late. Let us collectively find ourselves and our land, before it <\/span>vanishes beyond the limit, and becomes a Paradi.<\/span><\/p>\n

Capt. Elmo Jayawardena<\/span><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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